[26]. Memoirs of Granville Sharp.
[27]. Wadstrom, page 221.
[28]. Wadstrom.
[29]. They had first gone to Nova Scotia, from whence they sailed to Sierra Leone.
[30]. See my Lectures on African Colonization, and on the Relations of Free Labor to Slave Labor, for the main facts in relation to the increase of the Slave-trade.
[31]. It does not appear that the Nova Scotia fugitives sent their children to these Schools.
[32]. Although these Nova Scotia free blacks,—or rather these American fugitive slaves,—had gone to work so freely at first, in building churches and establishing schools, nothing farther is heard of them, in the history of missions, until the Wesleyans, 18 years afterwards, undertook their spiritual oversight. Their failure in securing the civil privileges for which they took up arms, seems to have placed them in a position of antagonism to the English Church.
[33]. “Abbeokuta, or Sunrise in the Tropics.”
[34]. “Where are your charms?” said a Mohammedan chief, under whom part of the Christian converts fought against the Dahomians. “You will all be killed.” “We have no charms,” was the simple reply, “but our faith in the Son of God, who died for sinners.” A watchful eye was kept upon them in the field of battle, for it was said that Christianity was making women of them; but they acquitted themselves like men: so much so, as to gain the praise even of those who persecuted them; and the result showed that it was possible to be brave, and yet Christian, and to escape the risks of battle without amulets.—Church Missionary Intelligencer, Oct. 1853.
When, in the midst of the battle, another chief, addressing one of the converts, exclaimed: “Ah, Kashi, if all fought like you, they might follow what religion they like.”—“Sunrise in the Tropics.”